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The Web Poetry Corner - Clarius Ugwuoha - Education-tree:tribute to Nigerian Education

Education-tree:tribute to Nigerian Education

by

Clarius Ugwuoha

Tree,
Scavengers usurp your twigs
Spiky climbers your boughs
The sun beats down
Upon shrivelled trunk

Your tyrants seize your world
As with grief you bow
Unmoving in the wind
Your tears at your feet
In leafy streams.

Unlike Job's,Tree,
Your soughed sepulchral cries,
Serrated incantations,
Rips not the sky
To behold the greater Being

The rain that rains
The sun that shines
The warmth of the weather
Do not heal your wounds
Do not make you grow
Your ailments do confound me
Lovely tree
I have no gift in the act of prognosis

The decadence forments
Lovely tree in pains
Sympathetic day weeps
RIOTOUS spouts of rain
STRIKING against faint leaves
Lovely tree, is it time
Is it time you died?

NEXT?
Why don't you look at Time to re-assess
by: Joyce Hemsley
from: Sunderland, England, UK

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